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The rioters and thugs don’t care that there’s a child with him.  He apparently didn’t care enough about his daughter not to put her in harm’s way.  This isn’t some political protest with civil discourse.  It’s a communist revolution.

The police were of course nowhere to be found, not that they would have done anything anyway.  They would have shown up if the father had unholstered a weapon because it would have been streamed to Twitter (and Jack Dorsey wouldn’t have taken it down because Jack Dorsey is a communist).

So you see, they’ve set this up to be this way.  They beat people up, even kill people, and if this provokes a response of self defense, they stream it to Twitter and call the police on the man, who then gets arrested by the police who wouldn’t do anything to stop it to begin with.  Then, the communist prosecutors charge the man with crimes, and he isn’t around to raise his daughter.

Folks, Americans are going to have to be smarter than this, politically, tactically, and concerning the art of war.  Because that’s what this is.

War.

AMERICA: Vile Far-Left #Antifa & #BLM chase a father and his young daughter because they are #Trump supporters pic.twitter.com/HyUQMsPnTD

— Jolene Bunting (@jolenebuntinguk) September 1, 2020

Via David Codrea, this report from Survival Blog is interesting and valuable.

The biggest observation from the first protest was that despite the claims that they aren’t organized, they are highly organized by a central organization. Ethan and his security/medical team have been at every protest I’ve attended in Michigan, including one at the Capitol an hour away. They use the ubiquitous BaoFeng Handi-talkie radios to communicate.

Ethan himself most frequently wears Interceptor Body Armor and a Guy Fawkes mask, while dressing in black and red. When he is not personally actually leading the march, he wears the full face Guy Fawkes mask to try and prevent being identified.

Next, I attended a smaller protest that was scheduled in Canton Township, Michigan, a small Detroit suburb. I arrived an hour early, and lo & behold, Ethan and his crew were already in place. The protest met in a local grocery store lot and Ethan’s team was patrolling the lot, checking cars for people who appeared to be watching the protest.

[ … ]

At the Capitol protest, the game changed significantly. Ethan and his team met up with other RevCom/ANTIFA and BLM security teams from around the state and all were openly carrying arms, including long guns. Many of the ANTIFA people who showed up all in black were wearing helmets and soft armor, so they were ready for violence. They actively harassed and intimidated anyone they deemed as “Militia”. My point in mentioning that is that if you show up to track one of these protests dressed in your “tacti-cool” gear, they’ll make you and drive you off long before you get there. Blend in, go gray.

[ … ]

I fell victim to their counter-surveillance again because the Militia folks had heightened their awareness with several attempts to enter the Capitol grounds, and apparently one of them observed me take a photo. They immediately began following me, including off the Capitol grounds to try and get my license plate, maybe even confront me, but since I had done a thorough map study and recon (again using my trusty BattleBoard Scout as a guide), I was able to lead them on a longer chase than they wanted to go on and they gave up. I was able to successfully change profile and re-enter the crowd.

It’s important to note that they had no authority to drive people off the Capitol grounds, but the State Police allowed them too, and never intervened when the BLM/ANTIFA crowd forced someone out.

When returning to my vehicle after each of these protests, I was very careful to conduct a Surveillance Detection Route (or SDR). This outwardly looks like a random walking pattern, allowing you to check and make sure that you aren’t being followed and to effectively shake or identify any followers.

There’s more at the link.

One thing you see here is a determined, concerted, disciplined effort not to get separated and to work en masse.  This is one thing the “Proud Boys,” militia, various patriot groups, and individuals haven’t learned yet.

They studiously avoid what doesn’t work, and studiously employ what does work.

CreativeDestructionMedia.

First they come for your guns. Then they force you to take an experimental vaccine. Then they arrest you for bad thoughts.

A pregnant Australian women was arrested recently in her pajamas in front of her children for posting bad thoughts on Facebook, officially for ‘incitement’…ie, organizing a rally against lockdowns.

All of her computers and devices were also seized.

Meanwhile, in Melbourne…
Pregnant mum arrested in front of her children & all her devices/computers seized because of a Facebook post about a proposed lockdown protest..
pic.twitter.com/CuFyQzwxHp

— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) September 2, 2020

Heroes of the community, each and every one, keeping the world safe from pregnant mothers.  They must be proud.

And of course, there’s only one solution for this.

First of all, Dean Weingarten wants to know why the real perpetrators of crimes are not in prison.

As there were multiple, coordinated attacks, they could be charged with conspiracy to commit a felony, under Wisconsin statutes 939.31.

The first, unknown attacker, clearly committed battery against Kyle Rittenhouse with the flying kick attack; because it was countered, the damage may not have been great, making it a Class A misdemeanor under Wisconsin statutes 940.19.

Huber committed a battery, but Huber is dead, so he will not be charged. Because he died, however, in the commission of a crime, the other two combatants may be charged with felony murder, Wisconsin statute 940.30. All three attackers were acting in concert, so the felony murder statute is likely to apply.

Grosskreutz could be charged under the endangering safety by use of a deadly weapon, statute, 941.20, for his actions with the semi-automatic pistol. 941.20 has an exception for defense of privilege of self-defense, or defense of others, which Grosskreutz might claim, and which Rittenhouse is already claiming in his lawyers’ statement.

The Kenosha County Prosecutor has decided to press charges against Kyle Rittenhouse, and not against his attackers. This shows a reluctance, almost certainly due to political pressure, not to charge the rioters. All three attackers appear to be from Wisconsin, so there is no interstate nexus for federal charges, unless it can be shown that they received funding or direction from out of state, which would be difficult to prove.

The case shows the incredible power of prosecutors to decide who will be charged, and who will not. The voters have the ultimate authority to place or remove prosecutors. Prosecutors are almost never removed unless their crimes are blatant.

Kenosha County District Attorney Michael D. Graveley may be contacted at (262) 653-2400. Email can be sent through a email wizard at the Kenosha County website.

The Assistant DA who signed the criminal complaint against Kyle Rittenhouse is Angelina Gabriele. Her email is:
angelina.gabriele@da.wi.gov

But you know who is in prison?  Not the sexual predator, not the wife-beater (they are both in hell now), and not the felon who is guilty of burglary and assault with a deadly weapon, but Kyle Rittenhouse.

He is a fine man and seems to be holding up, but he deserves to be at home given that he is innocent of all charges.

KYLE RITTENHOUSE SPEAKS!!!!!! THIS MUST BE THE TWEET HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLD!!!!!! RETWEET AND DONATE TO THE #FIGHTBACK FOUNDATION RIGHT NOW!!!!! #PaulRevere ⁦@LLinWood⁩ ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ ⁦@TuckerCarlson⁩ ⁦@michellemalkin⁩ ⁦@PressSec⁩ pic.twitter.com/fOCzeLGkcm

— John Pierce (@CaliKidJMP) September 1, 2020

As for what the future holds, I suspect this won’t be over for a very long time.  Even when it’s over, it won’t really be over (remembrances of Mike Vanderboegh).

Finally, I’ve had a difficult time pushing the piece on the Comprehensive Time-Spliced Video of Kenosha and getting traffic to it.  First of all, I can say that I’m not responsible for much of the content, so the intent isn’t to make me look good.

Second, it angers me when I see the trash from the MSM on the Kenosha event, and this video is like artillery fire on the MSM trash.

Please send it to friends and family if inclined.

Joe Huffman.

I just created a White House petition asking for the prosecution of the district attorneys who changed Kyle Rittenhouse with murder.

This is the petition:

Prosecute district attorneys who charged Kyle Rittenhouse with murder under 18 u.s. code § 242

18 USC § 242 provides for the punishment of “Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States…”

The district attorneys in the Kyle Rittenhouse case, despite clear evidence of lawful self-defense, filed murder charges against Rittenhouse. This not only subjects Rittenhouse to unlawful deprivation of rights it creates a chilling effect on others who wish to exercise their specific enumerate right to keep and bear arms in defense of self and others.

The district attorneys and others involved in this unlawful activity should be prosecuted.

This is easy 30-second activism.  I did it.

Additionally, I’ve had a difficult time pushing the piece on the Comprehensive Time-Spliced Video of Kenosha and getting traffic to it.  First of all, I can say that I’m not responsible for much of the content, so the intent isn’t to make me look good.

Second, it angers me when I see the trash from the MSM on the Kenosha event, and this video is like artillery fire on the MSM trash.

Please send it to friends and family if inclined.

Via Ken’s place, Michael Bane gives helpful observations.

• This is something I’m often deficient in, but I think we all need to be carrying less lethal weaponry in addition to a firearm. I just ordered a bunch of pepper spray (Sabre Red) to remedy that. I have bear spray for the car (you never know when you’re going to be attacked by bears in these strange times). In our upcoming episode of YOUR BEST DEFENSE, Cecil Burch notes that inside a car, gel makes more sense the spray because you don’t want all that pepper spray in your car or your kids. BTW, have you ever tried/had to function in a gas environment? The mob gets practice in that every night they riot. Consider taking a course…I recommend my friend Chuck Haggard. 

• Understand that if you use that gun or any weapon, for that matter, the full power of the state, in the form of state attorney generals bought and paid for by George Soros and Michael Bloomberg, and the media will be leveled against you. If you don’t have some form of concealed carry insurance (mine is through USCCA), sign up today. Have a criminal lawyer programmed into your phone, and talk to that lawyer IN ADVANCE. Yes, it’s going to cost you money up front, but in all likelihood (as in Kenosha) you are going to be charged with murder rather than hailed as a hero. That’s kinda a big deal.

• THERE IS A YUUUUGGGGEEEE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PROTECTING YOUR HOME AND FAMILY AND DOING A MARSHAL DILLON DOWNTOWN! It behooves you to understand that difference. Most states do not allow the use of deadly force to protect property, but it is all hellishly complex, giving you lots of gears to be caught up in. Trust Andrew Branca. I do.

• Should you do decide to go ahead with such an act, assume you will have to use the gun you are carrying. The current batch of urban terrorists are unlikely to melt away at the sight of a firearm. They are not scared of you or the gun. KNOW THE FREAKIN’ LAW in your state and community on lethal force! Standing over a couple of cooling bodies with a smoking AR is a bad time to consider the legality of your situation. THIS IS THE TIME TO NOT BE STUPID, KIDS! Read this: 

• Gabe Suarez once made a great point to me…people talk about who/what they’re willing to kill for, but the big question is actually what/who are you willing to die for, or spend the rest of your life in prison for? Gabe has made that type of hard decision. Cecil, Mike Seeklander and I have talked about that very point in the show going up next week. Where is your line in the sand? You’d better know that when you step out of the door with a gun.

• In ANY case, assume the peaceful protestors/terrorists you are facing are also armed. A brick is a weapon. A skateboard is a weapon. A frozen water bottle is a weapon. A gun, even a crappy zinc pistol, is a weapon and can kill you stone dead. I think we have to assume that at least some members of the mob have guns, and that number will probably be increasing.

• Understand that even in the best case, an armed individual can be overrun by a mob. And when they catch you, they are unlikely to be all that happy with you. I said in my book TRAIL SAFE that none of us needed to go looking for “High Noon,” because “High Noon” would eventually find us. THE GUN IS NOT A TALISMAN AGAINST EVIL! It only matters when it goes “Bang!”

• If you are facing guns, you must be thinking about your situation at at least a semblance of a military level…when you have to move, which direction are you going? WHERE IS COVER? Where is concealment? Where is more ammo? If you are at home, does your Spousal Unit or your kids know what you are planning to do? IS THERE A PLAN? There sure needs to be. And everyone needs to know it.

• You are carrying first aid/trauma gear (caveat, Riley is a friend, but I like his stuff), right? And you know how to use them, right? You don’t? GET THE TRAINING! The ability to save a life, maybe your own, is now a necessary skill. Start here. 

•. The police are not coming. The ambulance is not coming. The first responders who would have been on the scene in minutes in the Old Days — say, February — won’t be there for you. It’s just you and what supplies you have at hand.

He’s right about all of it, of course.  As readers know, I’m just now looking into med kits, I’ve been thinking about less than lethal weapons, and I have no carry insurance.

I’ve already written extensively on the Kenosha event, here (“What Started The Event?), here (“No, I Absolutely Do Not Stipulate That Kyle Rittenhouse Shouldn’t Have Been In Kenosha”), here (“What Does It Take To Be A Writer For Slate?”), here (“Three Criminals Shot In Kenosha, WI, Identified”), here (“Candid Observations At Reddit Concerning Kenosha, WI, Gun Battle”) and here (“One Rioter Gets Half His Arm Blown Off With Rifle Fire”).

But I can barely keep up with the breathtaking speed and dizzying accuracy of the analyses at both AR-15.com and Reddit/Firearms.

AR-15.com has comprehensive analyses at both this link and this one (the first being first in the sequence, the second being updated but different).

Reddit/Firearms also had a good analysis up, which has been taken down by the awful moderators, but which I lifted here (for the most part, although the loss of comments is regrettable).

The best video I’ve seen to date is a time-spliced video built and posted by a Redditor and dropped out as an MP4 file.  Here is the link (if the link gets taken down, I downloaded the full video and will repost).  Allow me to explain why I’m lifting some of the prose and explanation.  This is “fair use,” as I do not make a penny off of this web site.

Second, I’ve seen far too many valuable, creative, informative discussion threads removed by awful moderators to trust that it will be there in the future.  They could send me a certified letter signed by an attorney declaring that it will never be removed, and I’d still not trust them.  With that said, I will be lifting only parts of the explanation by the author, and I encourage you to go to the balance of the explanation and the comments (which are equally informative).

The Reddit/Firearms thread is here.

The entire thing is a single synced shot, with the exception of the part after the shooting where the entire clip from Regg’s stream of the shooting is played again, and a few seconds at the beginning showing CJ’s shot of Kyle leaving the gas station. Other than that, everything can be considered sequential, synced within about .05 seconds.

The first clip is mostly in there for irony’s sake, and to show that he was wearing his shirt properly earlier, but it’s part of a larger confrontation which started when rioters got angry at the gas station defenders for putting out a dumpster fire.
https://www.facebook.com/114093096999408/videos/581113739251513/?t=10740 (first shot fired at 3:49)
https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1299058504813035520
https://www.reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/igsx41/
Joseph was there, and he was very angry at people.
https://instagram.com/p/CEcdMXcpN1a/
That may have been what prompted him to start chasing Kyle (long time after this incident happened) when he spotted him 50ft outside the gas station parking lot, or Kyle may have started running on his own, drawing people to chase him. Either way, he appears to start running with the extinguisher about a second before “burn inside” is yelled”, dropping it a few seconds later.

[ … ]

Highest quality video of the chase and initial shooting: https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1298558424213594118
Second set of shootings: https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1298502384654651392
Another shot of the shootings, plus a thread with aftermath (unused): https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1298484633143775234
Kyle leaving the station: https://twitter.com/ShelbyTalcott/status/1298487753718534144
CJ’s stream, the guy who provided first aid (7:30 for first shots): https://archive.is/J8wrx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss-G-FX3Nys&t=3h58m
https://www.facebook.com/229855298387888/videos/726145031563748/?t=450
https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/clashes-between-protesters-and-armed-civilians-who-protect-the-streets-kenosha?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CEWCtCGFgc_/ (this is the libertarian who went viral the night before, he has a few statements about the situation in other posts)

Auxiliary footage (there’s more video from earlier in the night on their FB pages):
Aftermath Gore: https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1298501886987898880
Lakota’s footage, since he was following CJ: https://www.facebook.com/109372927557855/videos/619168862361016/
Therundownlive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz2jZ3TQzuk
RT footage, relevant bit at T minus 6 where Kyle asks the cops to go north to his workplace: https://www.facebook.com/552738918075145/videos/356037318743204/
Gaige’s POV (if anyone has his entire stream, let me know): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Auz1jUo1jp8
Compilation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MH4heiCYZQ

That’s all I’ll lift.  There’s a lot more at the link, and as I said, I encourage you to visit the link and watch the entire video (linked above), multiple times if you have to.  I have.

It’s obvious to me that Mr. Rittenhouse attempted to put out a fire caused by Rosenbaum, Rosenbaum didn’t like it (because he was trying to expand the fire to nearby buildings and police vehicles), and went after Rittenhouse.

Kyle Rittenhouse defended his life, and then others gave chase.  Kyle was on the ground when the rest of the shooting occurred, in one instance defending his life against an attack with a skateboard (which could be lethal in an attack to the head or spine), and in another instance against a convicted felon with a pistol who was advancing towards him (and who unapologetic and later claimed that his only regret is in not emptying his magazine into Kyle).

If you still don’t understand how this went down, I encourage you to go view the video again.  In the exchange, he killed a convicted sex offender (and also convicted arsonist), a wife beater, and wounded (and took out of the fight) another felon.

There’s another aspect that hasn’t been discussed at all, and that is the police interactions with the militia before this event went down.  Watch one of those present explain it to you.

pic.twitter.com/e1mfQcWtly

— Ryan (@EstaVivo) August 30, 2020

Let’s be clear.  The founders were deeply opposed to a standing army, and the police have become that standing army in many instances, especially with militarized tactics like SWAT teams and no-knock raids.

I’m not opposed to the use of militia to aid “peace officers.”  That’s how the founders intended it to work.  I’m also not opposed to what the Kenosha police told the militia, nor their intended use of the militia (assuming this report is true).

What I am opposed to is the arrest of Kyle Rittenhouse in this instance given that he was doing what was expected of him (and also acted only in self defense), and the office of the DA filing charges of murder against Rittenhouse.  The DA (Michael Graveley) will now use his office to conduct lawfare against the very people with whom the police made a bargain that very day.

But you can be sure of one thing.  Graveley’s office will make sure that the U.S. Department of Justice investigates the shooting of Jacob Blake.

It’s easy to say that St. Jacob Blake was the start, but he was only the pretext for the violence in Kenosha.

Most of this comes from good friend Len Savage, via AR-15.com.  As it turns out, Kyle Rittenhouse attempted to do what he came for, i.e., protect property.

“Kyle apparently ran up at the gas station and provided a fire extinguisher that put out Pedo Boy’s dumpster fire that he was pushing into the gas station … It pissed pedo boy off and they attempted to ambush and set the kid on fire to teach him a lesson…”

Then came screams of “get him.”  They wanted to burn things, Kyle tried to stop it, and for that they chased him down.

This was all in self defense, as his lawyers are pointing out.  Oh, and they’re not done yet.  They want to know where he is.

If he goes to a cell and anyone gets a lock on his location — email it to us https://t.co/f83kxUho4c

— Jailhouse Lawyers Speak — #August21 ⚔️ (@JailLawSpeak) August 26, 2020

If this Twitter post gets taken down, here is an archive of it.  I wonder if some DA will take this case up?

Before all of that, the very start of another video shows the cops telling people to go home since “they are civilians.”  Nothing pisses me off more than hearing that.  Cops are civilians too.

Any questions on the sort of people you’re dealing with?  Three convicted criminals got shot, one a wife-beater, another a pedophile, and finally one who came after Kyle with a pistol in his hand (who could not legally own that weapon), who were chasing Kyle down after he tried to stop burning of businesses, something the cops wouldn’t do themselves.

This may be one of the most videographed CQB events in history.  Kyle won.  That makes them angry.  It makes Antifa/BLM angry, and it makes the Kenosha DA angry.

This is just a bunch of bourgeois, trust fund white kids being supported by their parents. Either that, or George Soros money.

Hey Ted, how’s that appeasement thing going?  My readers want to know.

Also, a quick note to the Black Bloc.  Your music sucks.

There’s an antifa mosh pit outside @tedwheeler’s condo now. In addition to loud music, they’re flashing lights into his building. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/rFnuyOKNUK

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 29, 2020

There’s some type of antifa concert outside of @tedwheeler’s condo as part of the occupation tonight. This is where they previously set up an autonomous zone in honor of a man who tried to kill people with a gun before being killed by police himself. pic.twitter.com/fIf0sAvAaV

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) August 29, 2020